Analysis of achieving success on Reddit

Snoo Squad

May 2, 2016

Analysis of achieving success on Reddit by SnooSquad

Due to the extremely large size of the files, Google BigQuery, a SQL data querying cloud platform was used to quickly process large enough samples from our datasets

Time of post, post title, author, subreddit forum, karma (upvotes - downvotes), number of comments, and post/comment id’s

Network graph of interactions on Reddit

In this network, subreddits are blue, posts are yellow, and comments are orange. It can be seen that comments have both broad and deep tree-like connections.

Summary of results

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The general trend shows that posts with shorter titles achieved greater karma.                                                    Average karma per post seems to peak at 5 UTC.

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Subreddit forums pics, funny, and aww had the most viral posts.                                                                       It appears that between the hours of 5 and 15 is when karma peaks.